Beatles Duophonic Mixes

Duophonic I Want To Hold Your Hand is the definitive version to me. Just love the extra electicity it brings to the sound of tha tune. And I grew up listening to it on a mono player.

 

I've never collapsed a duophonic to mono. Sounds like a fun project for experimentation purposes.

Harry

 

Yes, but if I have FUN doing it, then it's not a waste! (But thanks for the sage advice!)

Harry

 

Well, it did take about five minutes...

I picked "She Loves You" from Capitol Albums Vol. 1, and used Audacity to combine the two channels. The resulting recording sounded like a mushy, phasey mess.

But, I DID have fun doing it.

Harry

 

Is there a complete list of all the songs that were released in America that differ from their UK counterparts?

By all songs I mean the duophonic ones being discussed here as well as the fake stereo, and the mixes that were altered by Dave Dexter.

If there's a website that lists them all I'd be plenty happy to have a link.

Thanks.

 

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/

http://heroinc.fortunecity.com/btls/btls2.htm

 

Thank you!
These are exactly what I was looking for and will aid me greatly as I do some serious listening this weekend.

 

Love the Beatledrops of the duophonic Y&T - makes me feel like a little kid all over again

 

I heard this last night for the first time (from my recent Capital vol. 2 purchase) and was enthralled by it.

But was it duophonic or fake stereo?

 

Fake stereo. IMO, the rechanneling was done by EMI in the U.K. and the tape sent to Capitol.

 

The "fake stereo" was the impression I got. Thanks for the info too.

 

I prefaced it with IMO...In my opinion. It wasn't meant as a definitive statement of fact. Sorry for the confusion.

 

All this discussion about what's fake stereo and what's 'duophonic' kills me.
No matter how you do it, fake stereo = fake stereo, even if Capitol decided to call their way of doing it something else.

Chris

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Supposedly, according to Lewishon's book, a stereo mix was made in 1965, but it was flawed with a drop out near the end and was never used. I can see EMI making a quick fake stereo version instead of a true stereo remix, especially if there was a deadline to send tapes to Capitol ASAP. Four hours making a new stereo mix versus one to two for a fake one...it might have made sense back then.

 

Truer words....

 

Same deal with "Voice Of The Xtaby".
I found a green label SM pressing which I thought was in mono, played it with the mono button pressed on the pre-amp and heard that phone booth sound. Then I pressed the button to find out that it was a Duophonic LP...yuk!

 

I avoid Duophonic.

 

I found a Duophonic promo record from the dawn of...Duophonicdom, on YouTube. The aural illusion is probably far more impressive on orchestral and big band music than it is on folk, pop, or rock.



I suspect that phase shifting was also introduced to accomplish some of the effect, along with the comb filtering. Maybe it worked better with a more complex signal of harmonics and frequencies?

 

Ack. I give up. I can't get the YouTube link to show up as a LINK, with the bbcode URL tag or anything. How do I get it not to embed?